Or lack of it.This is the time when our team needs all the support they can get.Yet yesterday we the fans helped contribute to our teams downfall.We can all bemoan the injuries,refereeing decisions etc but the players on the pitch need more belief from the fans that we can actually make the Liberty a fortress again.Yes spurs beat us yesterday but it could have been different if the ref gave us that nailed on penalty,but we didnt think we could win and the atmosphere only highlighted that-IT WAS DIRE.Lets get back to backing our team and pulling our club through this difficult period.Remember when we first got to the PL we didnt have a clue how our season would pan out but we backed our team to the hilt,so lets do it LETS MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!!
I get the feeling Bony is less than pleased with home support , I've seen him raising his arms trying to get the crowd going on more than a few occasions . I honestly think some players and our manager are not pleased at all about support , or lack of , from the stands .
Could this be because the fans aren't happy with performances on the pitch. Now that we are in the premiership, a number of fans will be going to watch football games to be 'entertained'.
We were entertained in the first half, Swans were very much on top, and playing some good football, yet the atmosphere still wasn't what we are used too. ~You only had to see Bony's reaction after hitting the bar trying to raise the crowd, its been poor all season. So that kind of negates that problem. I guess that is the problem when there are a fair few plastics getting season tickets, but still should be better than it has been. But then if your point is valid, then its also valid that the fans are as much to blame as the manager and players. Fans can't get in the mood if the players are not playing, and players can't get in the mood if fans are not singing. Something has to give, and as fans, we should back our team through thick and thin, so raise those voices.
I always wonder if there are any supporters groups that actually organise themselves in this way? It would be great if there was someone co-ordinating groups to help out the stadium. This is something the club could help with, no? It's just a case of getting a large group of like-minded supporters together in the same stand and using a co-ordinated effort to get the place jumping, you look abroad and yes they have trouble with violence, but the atmosphere can be amazing. Yesterday when we hit the bar and then missed out on the penalty that's when the crowd should have taken over with a bit of hymns & arias and loud backing, rather than grumbling and I'm sure that would have spurned the team on further.
Actually, I use my god given right to buy a season ticket to watch the swans. If I wanted to go somewhere and sing every week, I'd join a ****ing choir. I support the team by buying shirts and tickets and stuff. That should be conveyed to them via some sort of remunerative package. Maybe like a ****ing huge pay packet. I'm not even one of the people complaining about how we're playing (although Pozuelo and Ash were both poor yesterday). I just hate the happy clapping "sing up east stand" ****ers that think they can dictate to me how I should support the team and then blame me for not singing when they don't perform the job they're paid for.
That's what I was getting at. These fans want to be entertained all the time and are not interested when showing their vocal support when the going gets tough. But then again as shaper says, they get paid a hell of a lot of money to play a game of football, and some show their support through buying tops etc. The players have to give fans a reason to sing at times. But this is a growing trend in rugby also. The atmosphere at internationals and regional/euro games is also dire!
Why do you think some away fans call it the Library? Our North bank have been pants, and need a good kick up the arse!...............
You have got to have something to cheer about. you cant get fans full of enthusiasm if there is nothing to be enthusiastic about can you..When you hear fans booing and leaving early then that is a good indication that they are not happy with what they have been seeing all season not just yesterday..They are not leaving because the ref never gave us a penalty, they left because we are playing rubbish negative football and we were never going to beat anyone let alone spurs. the fans are fed up with laudrup and they are showing him by walking out...So don't expect the atmosphere to change anytime soon because it wont and probably get worst..
I hope the stands are brought back, it is being considered. All the new faces will want to stay away from there because they can't eat their sandwiches so easily, and the noisy bunch will want to go nowhere else. That would breath live into the stadium. I believe this issue was caused by richer folk who wanted to see Man Utd and took the seats before the regulars had a chance to get their season tickets. The regulars then either had to make do with seats wherever they were left or got none at all. On the rare occasion that I do attend a match I always see plenty of guys in their early twenties who don't have a Swansea accent, probably students who have mammies and daddies cash to buy the season tickets on day one. They should bugger off and put that money to where it is supposed to go, their ultra cheap subsidised rent that we have to pay for.
